BY THE

COLONIAL PERIOD.

Not including the New Grant.)

Drawn expressly For

Walcott's Concord in the Colonial Period,"

BILLERICA

By

2M.

VIRGINIA,

BAY

PINE

B

FARM

780.A.

C 17 54.

N.

ER

༢་ ༡.

WAT

WNE

WESTON,1712.

M

1630.

REFERENCES.
Boundary of Original
Grant,

Highways.

Abandoned Highways.
Bridle Roads.

Town Lines (Modern)
Meeting house, Concordi
Meeting houses, Bedford
and Lincoln Modern)

71115

42°25'

Engineer

42

CONCORD IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD.

CHAPTER I.

"Beneath low hills, in the broad interval
Through which at will our Indian rivulet
Winds mindful still of sannup and of squaw,
Whose pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies,
Here in pine houses built of new-fallen trees,
Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell."

EMERSON.

THE PLANTERS AND THE PLANTATION. -MAP OF THE ORIGINAL GRANT AND BLOOD'S FARMS. PURCHASE FROM THE INDI

THE plantation at Musketaquid was settled by Rev. Peter Bulkeley, of Odell in England, associated with Simon Willard, a merchant, of Horsmonden, who brought with them about twelve families.

Mr. Bulkeley, then fifty-two years of age, embarked at London, May 9, 1635, in the ship "Susan and Ellen," accompanied by William Buttrick and Thomas Brooke. Mrs. Bulkeley sailed two days before, in the "Elizabeth and Ann," under the escort of Thomas Dane;' from which it may be inferred that

1 Savage's "Gleanings; " Hotten, pp. 76, 77.